Nicaragua Program Completes Grant

Promotion of Workers’ Health and Safety (PROSSTRAB) in Nicaragua GHETS is pleased to announce the completion of a grant from the Culture, Food and Health Foundation to improve workers’ health in Nicaragua . This program offers a novel cooperation between medical school faculty and students at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua- Leon and union leaders with the Workers’ Union Confederation– Jose Benito Escobar (CST-JBE). Through this program, medical school faculty and students gain insight about the issues of occupational health facing Nicaraguan workers in different industries by collaborating with union leaders to create industry specific programs. This helps to […]

The first of our 2007 Mini-grant programs has completed! On August 23 and 24th a group of thirty women associated with women’s church based support groups met in the Aba Abia state of South East Nigeria. Over the course of two days these church group leaders learned about specific issues in women’s health through the Women’s Health Learning Package, and more importantly they learned effective methods for teaching others this information. During this two day training workshop, women chose topics of interest to them, including Violence against Women, and HIV/AIDS and developed innovative teaching methods to convey information. In groups […]